Audacity Forum

Is it possible to fade out the last 15 seconds of a track, while having the first 15 seconds of a second track overlap, so you hear both tracks as they overlap ? I can't determine this by reading in the manual. Not the manual's fault, its my own learning skills at play. I find the manual sometimes n...

THANKS FOR THE DIRECTIONS. I will play with this and see if I can get a sense of it.

Jimwick

envelope tool ! Trebor provides an interesting window with a video of actions taken by cursor via ENVELOPE TOOL ! Where can I find this demo video? I have not found any demo videos via the manual. In fact, I could not find any reference to ENVELOPE TOOL. I am a total novice. I realize that I have to...

You can't slide the Amplify slider to the left like the attachment? Can you type negative numbers into the number windows? Which Audacity? We need all three correct numbers. That screen shot is from Audacity 2.1.0. Koz Koz Thanks for replying. I have Audacity 2.1.0, YES I can push slider to the lef...

Hello. I run Audacity on a mac mini, OS X.10.4 YOSEMITE. I want to select a portion of a track, and lower the volume/ amplitude of the selected area. The Amplify Effect only increases the amplitude, even if I slide the slider to the left. The manual contradicts this. On my mac, the amplitude only in...

Thank you for your quick respose to my novice questions. I will try to learn these techniques. I once signed on the the VLC media player forum. That community was very disinterested in ' novice ' learners. I dropped at least 6 questions into the forum community, which boasted 22,000 members. Zero re...

Hello. The dynamic compressor seems to deal with compression. To compress something is to squash and reduce that something. The compressor in audacity enlargens amplitude. It should be called a DECOMPRESSOR. Bad semantics. I want to compress, decrease volume insections of a sound file. Can somebody ...

I am a novice with audio software. I see that we can cut and paste the imported audio files. But I want to decrease the volume in specific sections of an imported file. Since the cut & paste procedures are manual ( visual, horizontal ), :?: I hoped that volume amplitude was simply a manual visual ho...